Candle light march in Hyderabad to pay tributes to the martyrs of Kargil war: Venue: Necklace Road, opp MMTS Railway Station. Date: 26th July (monday), on the eve of VIJAY DIWAS Time: 6:30 PM to 8 PM damn..its in the evening. Jamwal saar.. do you know any such sort happening in morning hrs in hyd. ...

Chhattisgarh: Jawan's blood saves Naxal's life http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/may/12/chhattisgarh-jawan-donates-blood-to-naxalite.htm When a team under went to the area, the Naxals started firing at them to which the police team retaliated. Naxals soon fled the place, leaving behind an injured C...

Madhuri Gupta is upright, decent, say friends http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_madhuri-gupta-is-upright-decent-say-friends_1377164 Friends recall Gupta as an “upright and decent” officer who is suffering from diabetes. “What I am hearing in the media is shocking, as I know Madhu. She is not driv...

Behind India's Bust of a Pakistan Spy http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1985339,00.html "Her spy game was up the moment a Joint Secretary — an IB officer — inside the Islamabad mission suspected her around October 2009 and reported back," a high-level IB case officer in New Del...

Spy Madhuri Gupta was hoping for a London or Washington posting: DNA http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_spy-madhuri-gupta-was-hoping-for-a-london-or-washington-posting_1376595 "I should get London or Washington," a confident Gupta told PTI few months back. Gupta had earlier served in the...

Well, here is the scoope news from THE WEEK, dt Dec 13, 2009. I have read the cover story from the hard copy. Here are the online links, but I am not sure if it is full story. Some one who has net access to THE WEEK , please post the full story. This shows us atleast as far as Nepal is concerned , ...

I am reading "Param Vir" by MajGen Ian Cardozo. However i feel i would appreciate the tales of valour better if i could understand what is a Company, brigade, regiment, platoon, division etc. I know i have asked this once earlier, but unable to get any search results here on it. Not a kno...

AFAIK C-60 is a Anti-Naxalite Commando Force. It is a special operation squad attached to Police Units.They are currently operational in Gadchiroli and Gondia.They are basically locals who are well versed with the terrain as well as the enemy.

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/experiment-goes-wrong-explosion-in-hemrl/523668/ Blast in High Energy Material Research Laboratory... Later, HEMRL issued a press note saying, “HEMRL scientists were processing experimental propellant composition in a mixer in the laboratory premises. During ...

Some more reading on china's oil supplies and their supply lines http://www.eai.nus.edu.sg/BB329.pdf http://%20se2.isn.ch/serviceengine/Files/ESDP/56390/.../StringPearls.pdf http://www.maritimeindia.org/pdfs/CHINA%27S_MARITIME_CHALLENGE.pdf http://www.uscc.gov/hearings/2007hearings/written_testimoni...

then again, we might never know when it is used ! :wink: i met KPJ reddy once in Feb 09 at an Indo Russian meet on high energy density physics... when asked he told me that he has completed his research and submitted the reports and the concerned people are now evaluating it...he also stated that h...

sometime ago there was a news of KPJ Reddy of IISC bangalore coming up with some chromium paint layer which increases the range of the missiles... Does anyone know what is its status currently.....are we already using any such thing as it was possible to use the technology even on the existing missi...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Defence-officer-discloses-sensitive-info-to-fake-caller/articleshow/5063466.cms Defence officer discloses 'sensitive info' to fake caller Believe it or not, a person apparently managed to extract some ``sensitive information'' from a senior military off...

Nearly 48% of Pakistan's total land area is balochistan... and the gwadar port doesn't go well with the balochis as they think they are being kept out of the benefits and also that the money would be used for development of other regions than balochistan..... Pakistan even had to field frontier corp...

China does not need a strategic reserve because they have enough oil fields on land that defense can commandeer. Not that china does not need a strategic reserve...its in their interest to stockpile the same... and by oil fields if you mean the production fields, then its not at all enough for them...

According to Gaurav, major Suri was not given permission http://headlinestoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Who-killed-Major-Suri-.html&Itemid=&main_category=Hawk+Eye&contentid=63655&contentid=63655 Extremely disheartening to read that Major Suri was not given per...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/On-the-border-stray-dogs-are-Armys-new-best-friends/articleshow/5035717.cms Stray Dogs: Army's new best friends.... The Army is training stray dogs for help in detecting intruders and thus stop infiltration from across the border. The Line of Control (L...

The 39th has always been part of 16 Corps. It still continues post the 16 Corps split. :| meant to say the same...probably i didn't put it right..what i meant to say was that it was removed from CI Ops and put as reserves. Few lines from the book i read: Kargil: From surprise to victory. By Gen VP ...

The HQ, some troops and support elements were airlifted post haste from Bareilly. You see, dad was part of the formation in 1999 and 2002. :D oh..nothin to say then.. :) Another thing, why would 8th Mountain be called Northern Command Reserve? It is full time into CI Ops. ya...sorry for the wrong i...

Interestingly, from what I hear it was 6th and not 8th that was rushed to handle Kargil ops. Yeah..Gen VP Malik was in favor of giving the task to GOC 6 M DIV - Maj Gen Ashok Hakku as he had earlier commanded 121 INF BRIG. HQ of 6 M DIV was moved from bareilly on 26th may, 1999 and placed under 15 ...